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30 produkter
Just Getting Started
Häftad, 2017
201 kr
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At ninety, musician and singer Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, including albums, concerts, and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring artist has written his second book. In 2012's Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons …
Sunnyside Plaza
Av Scott Simon
Inbunden, 2020
175 kr
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Sally "Sal-Gal" Miyake can't read but she learns lots of things. Like bricks are made of clay and Vitamin D comes from the sun. Sal-Gal is happy working in the kitchen at Sunnyside Plaza, the community centre she lives in with other adults with developmental disabilities. For Sal-Gal and her …
Sunnyside Plaza
Av Scott Simon
Häftad, 2021
92 kr
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Sally "Sal-Gal" Miyake can't read, but she learns lots of things. Like bricks are made of clay and Vitamin D comes from the sun. Sal-Gal is happy working in the kitchen at Sunnyside Plaza, the community center she lives in with other adults with developmental disabilities. For Sal-Gal and her …
Tanners of Taiwan
Life Strategies and National Culture
Av Scott Simon
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of …
Tanners of Taiwan
Life Strategies and National Culture
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2018
762 kr
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Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of …
Tanners of Taiwan
Life Strategies and National Culture
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2018
762 kr
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Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of …
Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2002
120 kr
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"An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk." --Chicago Tribune "Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson''s arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extended essay." --The Washington Post Book World "Scott Simon tells a compelling story of risk and …
Sweet and Sour
Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2004
656 kr
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Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in …
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other
In Praise of Adoption
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2010
240 kr
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In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of …
My Cubs
A Love Story
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2017
83 kr
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NPR''s Scott Simon''s personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball''s most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. …
Sweet and Sour
Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
Av Scott Simon
Häftad, 2003
614 kr
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Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in …
Tanners of Taiwan
Life Strategies and National Culture
Av Scott Simon
Häftad, 2005
648 kr
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Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of …
Unforgettable
A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Av Scott Simon
Häftad, 2016
188 kr
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Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known
Av Scott Simon
Inbunden, 2026
259 kr
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Scott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two legged or four, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled–everyone is family. Today, the beloved radio host lives with the haiku-writing and absolument charmant French poodle Daisy; the …
Unforgettable
A Mother and Son''s Final Days---and the Lessons that Last a Lifetime
Av Scott Simon
Ljudbok, 2015
303 kr
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"I''m getting a life''s lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?" UNFORGETTABLE is a son''s spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love between parent and child. When NPR''s Scott Simon began tweeting from his …
Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life
Av Scott Simon
Häftad, 2024
268 kr
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Pretty Birds
A Novel
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2005
147 kr
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The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds , Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. In the spring of …
Windy City
A Novel of Politics
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2009
112 kr
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The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds , Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport. The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, sitting in …
